“The tractor must always be used as an aid to nature, not as a driver of nature. The tractor must work in harmony with the climate, and the fertility of the land, and the humble spirit of the farmers.” — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
“It’s funny, but when I talk about this business of my father and Valentina with my women friends, they’re absolutely appalled. They see a… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share
“There is no solution. I can see no possibility of peace in my lifetime. So long as they continue with their attacks, we will… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share
“Use the technology which the engineer as developed, but use it with a humble and questioning spirit. Never allow technology to be your master,… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share
“Mother, who had never missed a chance to fulminate against the evils of our time including privatisation, Jeremy Clarkson, and pay-day loans.” — Marina Lewycka Copy Share
“Da, sve otkako je čovjek prvi put digao glavu iznad ulaza u špilju da pogleda zvijezde na nebu i pomislio kako bi bilo lijepo… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share
As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families. — Marina Lewycka Copy Share
“Only the image of my father is unclear, as if something obscure but vital has been blotted out, and only the raging surface is… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share
“Pappa, just stop and think for a minute. Is this really what you want?” “Hmm. What I want?” (he pronounces it ‘vat I vant’).… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share
“In the early days of space travel, one interesting problem emerged from experiments with weightlessness. Americans found that ... normal ink pen would not… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share
In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down. — Marina Lewycka Copy Share
“With a feeling of despondency so intense that it was almost pleasurable, he got out his guitar. So this was to be his condition… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share
Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six.… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share
“...the wind in Ukraina blows very hard and cold at this moment. But it will not always be so. And where there is love,… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share
“Svaka žena čeka gospodina Browna i njegovu tajanstvenu izbočinu, vjernoga onkraj groba; onda odjednom shvati da ono što čeka uopće ne postoji i da… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share
